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Friday, August 4, 2017

Book talk: David Wallace-Wells, who wrote the Doomsday Downer article for New York Magazine has got a book offer for 6 figures advance with pub date set for 2019 (literary gossip)

Well, take what my pal says here with a grain of salt, because one never knows what happens in the book industry. But certainly, any agent worth her or his salt would be on this book right now, and that's why the word leaked out. Two more years before pub date, maybe summer 2019 my source says. But get ready.

The title will likely be THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH, with a new subtitle mirroring the brouhaha that the article gendered in the summer of 2017. ''On va voir,'' as the French say, we shall see.

Meanwhile, I am looking forward to this, and congratulations, David. This is good for the climate change activists movement and the book will also be good for furthering the rise of cli-fi novels and movies. So bravo, Mr Wallace-Wells.